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System Preferences keeps crushing Mac OS Catalina

Ever since I upgraded my OS, system preferences keeps crushing never opens, even when I boot in safe mode


Following Error message pops up


Process: System Preferences [1129]

Path: /System/Applications/System Preferences.app/Contents/MacOS/System Preferences

Identifier: com.apple.systempreferences

Version: 14.0 (14.0)

Build Info: SystemPrefsApp-453002000000000~521

Code Type: X86-64 (Native)

Parent Process: ??? [1]

Responsible: System Preferences [1129]

User ID: 501


Date/Time: 2020-05-28 20:01:12.107 +0200

OS Version: Mac OS X 10.15.4 (19E287)

Report Version: 12

Anonymous UUID: 953CFB06-87B3-E4AC-5A11-C1D0C3E93A08


Sleep/Wake UUID: 0D17B8D0-78EA-4A0F-87EB-313E3A25FC67


Time Awake Since Boot: 1500 seconds

Time Since Wake: 650 seconds


System Integrity Protection: enabled


Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread


Exception Type: EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT)

Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000

Exception Note: EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY


Application Specific Information:

dyld3 mode

*** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInternalInconsistencyException', reason: 'Invalid parameter not satisfying: aString != nil'

terminating with uncaught exception of type NSException

abort() called


MacBook

Posted on May 28, 2020 11:02 AM

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Posted on May 28, 2020 3:08 PM

Try downloading and installing this standalone "Combo" update: Download macOS Catalina 10.15.5 Combo Update

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